09 June, 2016

The most lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America - Guatemala

The United
States has been intervening covertly and overtly in many countries
since the late 1800s, however the CIA's first black ops date back to
the World War II after Harry S. Truman signed the act by which the
agency was created on July 26, 1947. The Central Intelligence Agency
is responsible for terrorism, assassinations, military coups and
rebellions around the globe and has deceitfully used many NGOs guised
as organisms that promote human rights, democracy, freedom and
economic development, including USAID, NED and IRI, just to mention a
few.

Their true
objective is imperialist in nature. The U.S. has interest in every
country, be it for its natural resources, cheap labor force or
because of its strategic geographical location.

In order to
meet its goals, the CIA recruits influential, intellectual and
charismatic personalities. The agency also resorts to threats,
kidnapping, torture, enforced disappearances and assassinations. The
organization incites violence, uprisings and military rebellion, and
causes economic chaos and misery to the people through scarcity of
basic foods and so on. The CIA has been exposed on a number of
occasions through documented evidence, leaks of information and
whistleblowing by active and former agents.

Guatemala
- 1954

In 1944, the
violent U.S.-backed dictatorship of Jorge Ubico was overthrown by a
popular uprising. The people of Guatemala were sick and tired of the
brutal injustices of his regime, although in reality Ubico was merely
a puppet of The United Fruit Company, which obeyed Washington's
orders. They basically enslaved the population. They stripped
campesinos and Indigenous people of their lands and forced them to
work their own parcels and paid them bread crumbs. Those who dared to
disobey were brutally punished by a police force working for the U.S.
agricultural company.

The victory
of the uprising brought peace to the country but it only took 10
years for U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to implement a plan to
overthrow the government.

In 1954, the
CIA launched the so-called PBSuccess operation. The country's capital
Guatemala City was bombed by U.S. warplanes. The young Ernesto “Che”
Guevara was there and witnessed the ordeal first hand. Hundreds of
campesinos leaders were executed and many campesino and Mayan
Indigenous communities were completely wiped out. The brutal CIA
intervention wasn't complete until 200,000 had been killed. U.S.
companies were again enjoying huge profits in the Central American
country and Washington was happy.